The Indian government will soon bar lower-level police officials from arresting people for making offensive comments on social networking sites unless the case is first reviewed by a senior police official, a top government official said. Kapil Sibal, the communications minister, said during a television interview that the recent arrests of two young women for their mild criticism of powerful people “are certainly an abuse of the law.”

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